User Generated Content is here to stay. Report from Bear Stearns assessing the effects of the Long Tail on Entertainment Industry, especially on television. Between content producers and traditional broadcasters the new subject is the aggregator/packager
What this all boils down to is a growing and substantial market need for new ad models and platforms. Granted, there’s a good chance that the dominant players of today, like Google and Yahoo, will end up being the ones to develop the new models.
through hundreds of thousands of iterations, until it had worked out a formula that did the best possible job of predicting the financial success of every one of the movies in its database.
Nope, we don't need your stinkin' technology, Google is paying $1.65 billion (with a "b") or 1.3% of Google's current value, for a media property. Plain and simple. But what does that even mean?
The size of downloads/views are estimated to eclipse 1.1 exabytes of data by 2010, with uploads growing to more than 9.1 petabytes. 23% of the dozens of UCG sites studied currently support mobile access, with others making announcements for this support i
Global spending via online and wireless channels reached $19 billion in 2005 and will increase to $67 billion by 2010. Internet advertising globally will grow to $51.6 billion at an 18.1% CAGR and Internet access revenues will increase to $214 billion at
I think the real winners long-term will be platforms that enable a new generation of content producers to break free from the old media content hierarchy and make money from their creativity. As Umair reminds us, it’s all about enabling creativity.
